maltreat
verb (used with object)
to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse.
is maltreating
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present progressiveof maltreat (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The longer I live, the more I see that we are never so near a reverse of Fortune as when she is favorable, or so near receiving favors as when she is maltreating us.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
